Tired of the same old boring pitch that flight attendants have to give you in accordance with FAA regulations? Well, Air New Zealand decided to make its own briefing a lot more epic in the latest video for the official airline of Middle Earth stand-in country.
Watch as Elijah Wood and other cast members grace this light-hearted, good natured air safety briefing, complete with fake Gandalf explaining how to position yourself in the event of a crash landing.
Can’t get much more delightful than that, except perhaps with a second breakfast or two.
The lovely gentleman with the Scottish accent is Sylvester McCoy, who plays the wacky magician Rhadagast in the films. The bearded dude who tells fliers to stow their electronic devices is none other than Peter Jackson himself.
What a fun little video. If you’ve got four and a half minutes to spare today, be sure to watch it on YouTube. Movies like this would definitely get me to pay a bit more attention to the safety briefings, for sure.
Rob LeFebvre is an Anchorage, Alaska-based writer and editor who has contributed to various tech, gaming and iOS sites, including 148Apps, Creative Screenwriting, Shelf-Awareness, VentureBeat, and Paste Magazine. Feel free to find Rob on Twitter @roblef, and send him a cookie once in a while; he’ll really appreciate it.
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